The Club Championship
starts next Tuesday
the last internal event of the year by golly.
The Gosford Open
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First weekend of november
Before our adults meeting we have some juniors come for some coaching and play
We had our (Gosford's) Annual General Meeting - lots of new faces and a lot was accomplished in under an hour. After that fidemaster John Curtis gave a Simul - the score was the 'usual' 14-0
The week after we played the Gosford Blitz Championship 2007
Placings 1st and 2nd with one best performer award. Allen easily outperformed his rating but since he already came second...
Zach entered the tournament under a time restriction and if I had started the darn-well thing on time... in round 6 though theere was the exciting encounter between the two top seeds. Allen has shown good form from the District Championship (where he scored equal second) on - how I remember when fast chess was a weak spot, it may still be relatively speaking, but he was still good enough to only drop games to Zach and Stephen.
I, meantime had my little tussle with Michael, was in deepening trouble but fortune smiled on me and I came up with a bit of a swindle, a sort-of reconstruction follows later.
The Country Teams Event
First weekend of December
(3) purdyesque - KzadorDeRey [B00]
Internet game: Rated blitz freechess.org, 14.10.2007
[notes by Keith (Purdyesque, if only I played ]
1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Be2 h5 a hint of somwthing different 6.0-0 a5 Diagram
different indeed, a friend calls this the 'bowl' defense since black's pawns look like a bowl or perhaps a helmet7.Be3 Nh6 8.Qd2 Ng4 9.Bf4 I felt the knight had lost Tempo but I regretted my Queen developed to d2, and B-f4 felt odd and clunky 9...Bh6 10.h3 Bxf4 11.Qxf4 really this is as far as I'll note here - as you'll see my opponent plays via this schema as black - perhaps not exclusively but it turns out the three blacks went this way. 11...Nh6 12.Ng5 e6 13.e5 0-0 14.Nce4 Bxe4 15.Nxe4 Nf5 16.Nf6+ Kg7 17.Bxh5 Nh6 18.Be2 Nc6 19.Bd3 Ne7 20.g4 Nd5 I was liking my position a lot - the very nice Knight outpost had a real cramp going 21.Qg5 Nb4 22.Be4 d5 23.Bxg6? fxg6 24.Nh5+ Kh7 25.Nf6+ Rxf6 26.exf6 Nxc2 27.Rad1 Qf8 28.f4 Ne3 29.f5! Nxf1 the correct rook to capture - if the other one was taken [ 29...Nxd1 30.fxg6+ Kg8 31.f7+; 29...Nexf5 espensive but better than taking a measly rook] 30.Rxf1?? [ 30.fxg6+ Kg8 31.Rxf1 ( 31.f7+ Kh8 32.Rxf1) 31...Nf7 32.gxf7+ Kh7 33.Qh5+ Qh6 34.Qe5] 30...exf5 31.gxf5 gxf5 32.Rxf5 Qg8 33.Qxg8+ Rxg8+ 34.Kf2 Nxf5 0-1
(4) KzadorDeRey - purdyesque [C24]
Internet game: Rated blitz freechess.org, 14.10.2007
[notes by Keith]
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bc5 4.Nf3 d6 5.h3 0-0 6.0-0 Nc6 7.d3 Bd7 8.Be3 Bxe3 9.fxe3 Qc8 10.d4 exd4 11.exd4 Diagram
having a point under my belt (and showing off - a friend was watching), I felt emboldened to lash out into the unknown and take ALL the pawns around the King 11...Bxh3 12.gxh3 Qxh3 13.Qe2 Qg4+ [ 13...Nh5 perhaps heading for g3 or f4 would have been aggressive, though I thogh I needed my Rooks and other Knight] 14.Qg2 Qh5 15.Be2 Qh6 urk 16.Kf2 Rfe8 17.Ke1 headed for Queenside castling-by-hand perhaps 17...Qe3 [ 17...Nxe4 18.Nxe4 Rxe4 19.c3 Rae8 better] 18.Rg1 g6 19.Qg5 Qxg5 20.Nxg5 h6 21.Nf3 Nxe4 22.Nxe4 Rxe4 23.Kd2 Rae8 24.Bd3 Re3?! I can't afford exchanges 25.Rge1 Rxe1 26.Rxe1 Rxe1 27.Nxe1 Kg7 28.c3 Kf6 29.Ng2 h5 Diagram 30.Ke3 g5 31.Kf3 h4 32.Ne3 Ne7 33.Ng4+? [ 33.Kg4 c5 34.dxc5] 33...Kg7 34.c4 f5 35.Ne3 Kf6 36.Nd5+ Nxd5 37.cxd5 g4+ 38.Kg2?? Kg5 [ 38...f4 also worked] 39.b4 Kf4 40.Kf2 h3 41.Bf1 g3+ 42.Kg1 h2+ 43.Kh1 Ke3 44.Kg2 f4 45.b5 f3+ 0-1
(5) purdyesque - KzadorDeRey [B00]
Internet game: Rated blitz freechess.org, 14.10.2007
[notes by keith]
I know I'm biased, but I dod indeed like the final position 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Be3 h5 6.Bd3 Nh6 7.Qd2 Ng4 8.Bf4 Bh6 9.h3 Bxf4 10.Qxf4 Diagram
a familiar position ?10...Nh6 I sensed that things could go wrong for black REALLY quickly 11.g4 [ 11.Kd2; 11.d5 Na6] 11...hxg4 12.hxg4 f5 13.Rxh6 Rf8 14.Qg5 d6 and thus starts a bit of a King-hunt 15.Qxg6+ Kd7 16.gxf5 c5 17.Qe6+ Kc7 18.Nb5+ Kc6 19.d5# 1-0
(6) KzadorDeRey - purdyesque [C20]
Internet game: Rated blitz freechess.org, 14.10.2007
[notes by keith]
1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 this certainly got me reacting poorly - I starting blitzing and rushing 2...Nf6 3.Qxe5+ Qe7 4.Qxe7+ Bxe7 5.e5 Ng4 6.d4 Nc6 7.Nf3 0-0 8.Be2 Re8 9.0-0 b6 10.Bg5 Bxg5 11.Nxg5 Nxd4 12.Bd3 h6 but things were strarting to get coordinated 13.Nh3 Nxe5 14.Re1?? Bb7 15.f4 Nxd3 16.Rxe8+ Rxe8 17.cxd3 Nc2 I had been looking/hoping/aiming for this for a while - and perhaps relaxed when it happened 18.Na3 Nxa1 19.Kf1 Re3 20.Nf2 c5 21.Nc4?? d5 22.Nxe3 d4 but if I pause a bit and collect myself ... 23.Nc4 Bc6 Diagram
not bad pawns eh 24.Ke1 Nc2+ 25.Kd2 Ne3 26.g3 Nxc4+ 27.dxc4 f5 28.Kd3 Kf7 29.b3 a6 30.a3 b5 31.a4 bxa4 32.Kc2 axb3+ 33.Kxb3 a5 34.Nd3 a4+ 35.Ka3 Kg6 36.Ne5+ Kh5 37.Nxc6?? Kg4?? [ 37...d3!! 38.Kxa4 ( 38.Kb2 a3+!! 39.Kxa3 d2) 38...d2 39.Kb5] 38.Ne5+ Kh3 39.Nf3 Kg2 40.Nh4+ Kxh2 41.Nxf5 h5 42.Kxa4 g6 43.Nh4 Kxg3 44.Nxg6 d3 45.Kb3 h4 1-0
(7) purdyesque - KzadorDeRey [B00]
Internet game: Rated blitz freechess.org, 14.10.2007
1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Nf3 d6 6.Qd2 Nf6 7.Bd3 a5 8.0-0-0 0-0 9.h4 Ng4 10.Bf4 e5 11.Bg3 Bh6 12.Ng5 f6 13.f4 fxg5 14.hxg5 Bg7 15.Qe2 Bc8 16.Rh4 Qd7 17.Rdh1 [ 17.Bc4+ Kh8 18.dxe5 Ba6 19.Rdh1 Bxe5 20.fxe5 Nxe5 21.Bxe5+ dxe5 22.Nd5 Bxc4 23.Qxc4 h5 24.Nf6 Qd6 25.Nxh5 gxh5 26.Rxh5+ Kg7 27.Rh7+ Kg6 28.Qe2 Kxg5 29.R1h5+ Kf6 30.Rf5+ Ke6 31.Qc4+ Qd5 32.Qxd5#] 17...h5 18.gxh6 Nxh6 19.Rxh6 Qg4 20.Qxg4 Bxg4 21.Rxg6 exf4 22.Rxg4 fxg3 23.Bc4+ Rf7 24.Rf4 b5 1-0
(8) Farrell,K - Russell,M
Gosford Blitz Champ October 2007 freechess.org, 15.10.2007
[notes by Keith]
Diagram
this isn't the position - except for the 'essentials' 1.Ba6 Rcd8 2.c4 Rhe8 3.Rb3+ Ka8 4.Bb7+ Kb8 5.Ba6+ whateer the position looks like here, I wasn't doing well at all, possibly losing but my mem ory fails me :-) , but I was certainly glad of the swindle [ but of course, in 'this' position 5.Bxc6+ is preferable - though the position is not correct, remember 5...Kc8 6.Bb7+ Kb8] 5...Ka8 6.Bb7+ Kb8 and after a few more dance steps
The end-result being that Michael and I shared the Best performance award, except for Allen who came 2nd overall but rule is once you have a prize ... 1/2-1/2
